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• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  Digital Realty opens datacentre in Chennai

  Datacentre developed through joint venture will support high-density power requirements and tap Jio’s connectivity infrastructure across India

• January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

  AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day

  Amazon Web Services’ hold on the UK public sector continues to tighten, following the revelation that on a single day in late 2023 it clinched contracts worth £894m with three central government departments

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023

  Storage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs

  Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  Datacentre operators form APAC industry group

  The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association will advocate for policies to drive the security and resiliency of datacentres and minimise environmental impact, among other goals

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI

  Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing

• December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

  Top 10 India IT stories of 2023

  We recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies

• December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023

  We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023

  Organisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage stories of 2023

  In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

  In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2023

• December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2023

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Government plans to regulate to tackle datacentre threats

  DSIT outlines a range of proposals designed to protect data storage facilities from cyber attacks, as well as physical threats and the effects of climate breakdown

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Cisco eyes opportunities in AI, sustainability in Australia

  Cisco is looking to tap opportunities in sustainability, AI and cyber security as it navigates Australia’s economic headwinds

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support

  Customers are being offered a big discount to migrate onto a VMware subscription service

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024

  Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs

  Scale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  UK government quietly renews public sector preferential pricing agreement with AWS

  The UK government has renewed an agreement that will ensure public sector IT buyers can still procure AWS services at discounted prices for another three years, despite anti-competitive concerns

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  CIO interview: Keith Woolley, chief digital information officer, University of Bristol

  With Bristol set to host the UK’s biggest supercomputer, its technology chief is looking to make the most of internal and international collaboration to drive digital improvements

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  Concerns raised over Home Office's £450m mega cloud deal with AWS

  The Home Office's latest three-year contract with AWS is valued at nearly half a billion pounds, but questions are emerging about the contents of the contract and how it has been arranged

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  How server makers are surfing the AI wave

  While hyperscalers extend the life of their x86 equipment, the industry’s desperate pleas to find a new killer application to drive up server sales may well be coming true

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  How a Node4 virtual datacentre proved better than MS cloud for mental health charity

  Charity Together For Mental Wellbeing managed to migrate legacy servers into a new virtual environment and fix a major disaster recovery issue

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Singtel’s DC Tuas datacentre to cater to AI workloads

  Offering 58MW of capacity, DC Tuas will be the first of Singtel’s new generation of artificial intelligence datacentres to incorporate more efficient cooling technologies

• December 04, 2023 04 Dec'23

  Microsoft leaves SME resellers in the dark over Cloud Compute 2 framework snub

  SME IT suppliers are calling on Microsoft to explain why it has banned them from reselling its services through the government's new £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework

• December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23

  Microsoft to invest £2.5bn in doubling AI datacentre capacity in UK

  Prime minister Rishi Sunak has hailed Microsoft's show of commitment to helping the UK achieve its goal of becoming an AI superpower

• November 30, 2023 30 Nov'23

  Infosys and Shell collaborate on push to accelerate adoption of immersion cooling in datacentres

  IT consultancy and energy giant are looking to accelerate the take-up of immersion cooling in datacentres through collaboration

• November 30, 2023 30 Nov'23

  CGI and Google Cloud join forces to support United Nations in climate change fight

  IT consultancy pools resources with public cloud giant to support United Nations agency helping members fight climate change

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  Re:Invent 2023: Selipsky cues Q to project future shape of work

  At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, Re:Invent, CEO Adam Selipsky hails GenAI capacity of product Q to reshape the future of work

• November 28, 2023 28 Nov'23

  UK retailer The Very Group embarks on GenAI push with AWS

  The Very Group's collaboration with AWS is geared towards improving the customer experience through personalisation

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  Interview: Sunil Srivastava, CTO, Pandora

  When he joined the jewellery retailer, Sunil Srivastava was labelled as the ‘crazy CTO’ given some of the ideas he had for transforming IT

• November 23, 2023 23 Nov'23

  Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government's Cloud Compute 2 framework

  Microsoft is under fire after documents leaked to Computer Weekly revealed it has banned reseller partners from selling its services via the government’s soon-to-be launched Cloud Compute 2 framework

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  AWS to offer free AI training courses to two million people by 2025

  Public cloud giant AWS has set its sights on bolstering the AI skill sets of two million people globally

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  NHS England renews FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration hosting deal via G-Cloud for £1.67m

  NHS England has renewed its long-standing hosting and support contract for the FutureNHS platform with SME cloud provider Kahootz

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Nebulon upgrades SPU to Medusa2 with Nvidia DPU hardware

  Nebulon aims to replace HCI with its OS on an offload card that it claims reduces server resource use by 25%. Medusa2 uses Nvidia DPU hardware and its own cloud control plane

• November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23

  Globe Telecom implements SaaS model to cut network power use

  Comms tech provider’s artificial intelligence and machine learning-based energy efficiency offering deployed to reduce energy consumption across infrastructure while maintaining network performance

• November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23

  Inside India’s datacentre boom

  India’s datacentre market is expected to surpass $10bn by 2028, but realising its full potential will require innovations in sustainability and improvements in connectivity

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Datacentres denied: West London server farm dispute prompts calls for UK planning system reform

  The government is under fire after dismissing a datacentre development in west London despite soaring demand for capacity - but how can we balance new development with protecting the UK’s green spaces?

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Digital Edge secures green loan for South Korea datacentre

  The Singapore-based datacentre provider has secured its first green loan for its latest colocation facility in Incheon

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Interview: Walmart’s David Glick discusses technology scale

  We speak to Walmart’s head of enterprise business services about managing IT and technology innovation at the retailer

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push

  Music streaming giant Spotify is forging even closer ties with its long-standing cloud partner Google in an effort to improve user experience with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding

  An annual sustainability study by SAP reveals UK businesses are on the right track, but still face barriers in the long run

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observability

  Gigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth

• November 14, 2023 14 Nov'23

  Chip sector gears up for AI revolution

  While Nvidia has established its AI dominance, Intel has been working on AI chips running on supercomputers

• November 14, 2023 14 Nov'23

  Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup

  Frankham Group ditches archaic tape backup and deploys Rubrik backup appliances and remote disaster recovery facility. Meanwhile, the engineering group assesses a move to the cloud

• November 13, 2023 13 Nov'23

  Australia’s public cloud spending to hit A$23bn in 2024

  Spending on public cloud services in Australia will reach 50% of the total addressable market for the first time in 2024, according to Gartner

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Ex-Coca-Cola VPs debut ChatGPT-like AI tool to help enterprises solve their sustainability woes

  The Ubuntoo AI tool is already in use within several Fortune 500 companies to help these firms hone their sustainability strategies

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud

  Australian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme

  Less than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations

  SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives